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Before you start

Before you jump in to any tutorials, we recommend you do the following:

Understand Jina-serve

Read through an {ref}introduction to Jina concepts <architecture-overview> to understand the basic components that will be used in the tutorial.

Work in a virtual environment

We highly recommend you work in a virtual environment to prevent conflicts in packaging versions. This applies not just to Jina-serve, but Python as a whole.

Install Jina-serve

For most purposes, you can install Jina-serve with:

shell
pip install jina

For more installation options, see {ref}our installation guide <install>.

Python vs YAML

Jina-serve supports YAML in many circumstances for easier deployment. For more information, see our {ref}guide on coding in Python and YAML in Jina <python-yaml>.